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Alright, I know there might have lots of answers for that but I need some real suggestion on which I can depend. Can anyone please suggest me a free script for billing which is stable, user-friendly and have maximum features?
Thank you so much in advance!
Check HostBill. It can be used for billing and managing your servers.
While free is nice, I still would definitely recommend going with WHMCS to manage your billing/clients
While these are free and opensource, I really wouldn't recommend them. They're pretty basic. Trust me, it's worth paying for a license for WHMCS instead
TheHostingTool
ShineISP
Test them carefuly
I've been using WHMCS for years. Its the best. And you can get a FREE license with many hosting providers (Namhost.com being one i know of). They also offer a free license for WHM Autopilot on certain packages.
But your other options are:
ClientExec (not free, but only 12 USD)
WHM Autopilot (not free, but only 15USD)
Box Billing (free)
WHMCS is no more working in UBUNTU 14.04 or any other surrounding using PHP 5.5 and they wrote that it might take months until they release first betas!!!
he people from ioncube wrote:
we cannot offer a solution at this time ... Again, this is not a
deliberate restriction, but rather a result of PHP's tremendous
changes in their execution engine. For now the only fix for you
appears to be to downgrade for PHP 5.4.
And WHMCS wrote
Exactly, so as of our next major release we will no longer be
supporting PHP 5.2 so that we can encode using the version of Ioncube
which supports PHP 5.3 and above. The current version of WHMCS still
supports PHP 5.2, so at this time it isn't possible for us to
distribute a single copy which supports 5.2 and 5.5+.
and
I can advise that we will not be releasing v6.0 this weekend, a beta
is expected in the next few months.
better use another solution before loosing your customers ;-)
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How did they implement text to speech (TTS)? Is there an open, free API for TTS synthesis? I know about Google Translate, but the license is not clear to me (another issue is that they block a request if it contains a referrer). Any idea?
Majdron,
I'm a lead developer at Quizlet. We're using a combination of our own technology and licensing/purchasing TTS software from several different companies.
There are some open source TTS engines/voices:
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/
http://www.babelfish.org/tts-free.htm
http://espeak.sourceforge.net/
http://freetts.sourceforge.net/docs/index.php
http://mary.dfki.de/
Good luck!
The voices sound exactly the same as http://www.neospeech.com. Also, their list of languages match exactly.
It's not free, you have to license it.
Google has just introduced browser-based access to its speech engine through HTML5.
http://slides.html5rocks.com/#speech-input
To get this page to work, I launched the Chromium browser as follows in Ubuntu:
$ chromium-browser --enable-speech-input
I'm not sure if this works in other operating systems.
Another interesting project is WAMI from MIT:
http://wami.csail.mit.edu
I don't know which specific engine Quizlet are using, but assuming they are using a free service then it might be TTS-API (http://tts-api.com/) which was recently featured on Hacker News.
From what I know is the only "free-to-use" TTS web-API out there. Please comment below if I'm wrong - I'd love to find similar free services. There are a lot of pay only services out there but very very few truly free ones.
Since finding out about TTS-API on HN I've successfully used it in a recent app project. Since the TTS is only a HTTP fetch away I was able to quickly integrate it in both the iOS and Android versions of my app. The service appears to be very quick, so no complaints so far :-)
Nobody gave the right answer. They have their own TTS engine that is connected to a single file located at http://quizlet.com/tts/en.mp3 the file takes arguments with it so the url http://quizlet.com/tts/en.mp3?v=14&b=QXJlYSBvZiBwYXJhbGxlbG9ncmFt&s=m5dx52Q. says "Area of parallelogram" thanks the first base64 string labeled b. I have not discovered what v or s are used for but I know they are essential for making the file speak. I will do more research and get back to this answer.
jj b is correct. The core engine of Quizlet's speech features is Neospeech, and uses Neospeech's VTML (VoiceText [TM] Markup Language) exactly, as far as I can tell.
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I am looking for a STABLE FTP library for Compact Framework. I would prefer a library where I don't have to fix or step through any code, but just use as is.
While the free OpenCf.FTP is great, I think it is at this point creating more work for me than my actual coding and I am afraid I don't have time allotted for this.
Any libs you guys have had experience with? Good/bad?
Our Rebex FTP/SSL supports .NET CF since 2006. It shares the codebase with Rebex FTP which is maintained since 2004. I guess it is probable quite stable - for example Microsoft licensed this FTP/SSL component and is using it in Visual Studio 2010 for web deployment. Source code available.
Xceed also has a solid FTP library for .NET CF.
Check out IP*Works from \n Software. Solid and well supported.
What i find the most bizarre about CF is that it lacks FTP functionality. I mean it is a framework for MOBILE apps for God's sake. Perhaps someone from MS could enlighten me on why file transfer functionality is missing from mobile apps framework.
I am sure someone will come with some long and smart sounding explanation. Knock yourself out, it still makes no sense at all.
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This weekend I installed Windows 7 (brilliant!) and there I found this genious tool called Problem Steps Recorder. Apparently a tool that came with the beta bug reporting tool thingy.
I am currently trying to document some application usages for other developers. (In this exact case, how to get Showplan XML Statistics in SQL Profiler and some basic usage of Database Engine Tuning Advisor). And I was thinking that a tool like that Problem Steps Recorder with be perfect for this! Only problem is that it is only in windows 7 (?) and the output is an mht file which also contains some general bug issue text etc...
Anyways, does anyone know if this tool is available in a more general version? Or if there are some free and smooth alternatives which does kind of the same thing for Vista (and other windows versions if possible)?
Maybe Wink is your answer.
I'm looking for a better capture tool for both user documentation and reporting bugs. The best "steps recorder" that I've seen is bundled with Testuff. Their Test Runner app lets you select a region to record (video). It captures every mouse click and logs every key press along side the video playback. Of course, it's designed only for reporting bugs to a development team.
I'm still using SnagIt (cheap, not free) for capturing screens and adding annotations. I also have Camtasia, but that's definitely not "free" as you requested :)
I just stumbled upon 'Imago recorder', available via various software / download sites. It's not pretty but it does the trick and it's free.
It's currentyl available here
Additional option you should definitely pay attention to is StepsToReproduce. There are several options for recording (screen/window/region) and nice powerful annotation tools. And it's also free!
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I'm looking to evaluate a few opensource e-commerce solutions. Are there any good alternatives to OSCommerce out there ?
I've looked at Thelia and Magento so far, are there any others that are worth looking at ?
They should be :
Free as in freedom
Easy to maintain / extend
Coded in PHP or Python (ideally, but I'm open-minded)
There are forks of OSCommerce such as CRELoaded, although that doesn't change much in terms of the basic calculus, it just may have some additional features that you care about.
I had experience with CRELoaded/OSCommerce. I found the code base pretty bad, with UI and logic mixed in everywhere, with no good control over the architecture and what code goes where.
You said free as in freedom, so I'm going to throw this out (although I think the technology is Java). Fry is not at all free as in beer (several hundred thousand short of free), but whatever they implement you get full source code (at least according to their sales pitch when I was looking at them). I suspected that this was because they used GPL stuff in their stack, but I don't know.
Another good one is Magento, I have heard good things about both. I also in the past used ClickCart Pro and it was nice a couple of years ago.
For those who may be interested, I ended up discovering and selecting PrestaShop.
It is coded in PHP/MySQL, highly configurable, very modular by design and the codebase is really clean and well-organized. A crapload of opensource and paying modules are available to extend the functionnality if needed.
zen cart
Very vague. Alternative in what way, in that they can also host products? Hav a CMS? Built in features? Configurable? Themable? What are you looking for?
Isn't this more of a google query?
How about using opencart ? It is released under GNU GPL
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I need to read the user's fingerprint from my application.
What I really want is a simple SDK that works with a lot of inexpensive fingerprint readers but I can deal with something that works only with one specific model if that model is cheap and available worldwide.
And it has to be royalty-free, I can pay for a development license but if I have to pay for each installation I just can't use it.
What I'm doing has no relation to login or encryption, so the software included with the reader will probably be useless to me.
There is no standard API for reading fingerprint data as far as I'm aware since it is a fairly new field and there's no standard way of doing it. Each manufacturer will provide their own API for reading the hardware. The API could just be IO specification to the hardware and there's no library whatsoever, which makes things a bit trickier. This is down to two factors. The first is that finger print readers are used in many applications - custom hardware, embedded systems through to PC authentication and beyond. Providing software for all those different systems would not be viable from the manufacturers point of view. Secondly, each manufacturer uses a different approach to reading and processing the captured images which would make a common API problematic.
It's an old question, but I bumped into it while researching the topic.
I did find a free library for Linux - libfprint
Digitalpersona has a free SDKs both for windows and linux.
http://www.digitalpersona.com/products/developer.php
I dont know if there are costs for deploying with their SDKs.
(Actually it appears they don't charge per machine/user licensing.)
Did you take a look at the BioAPI consortium site? There's a library for linux over at Google code.
There's also libchipcard, but it doesn't mention fingerprint readers, only smart cards.
Hope that helps.
Symbol has an api for their MC75 handheld devices:
http://support.symbol.com/support/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=12364&sliceId=&dialogID=104336066&stateId=1%200%20104330426
Of course, it only works for their Windows Mobile 6 MC75 devices.
See Windows Biometric Framework.